...[T]he goal of open access is very much on [JSTOR's] mind. “It’s not a question of if we should do it but when we can do it and not devolve our preservation goals,” [Heterick] says....
It isn’t really the case that JSTOR is thinking about “open access” as much as I was carrying forward the notion that JSTOR is always trying to “open access” more broadly to other communities (e.g. secondary schools, public libraries, developing nations). That is an important part of JSTOR’s mission (to extend access as broadly as possible), so perhaps I should have used the phrase “broaden access” instead of “open access” to avoid the confusion with much more highly-publicized “open access movement” (OA).
PS: All right, noted. But why isn't JSTOR considering OA? Why not OA for the sufficiently old issues of participating journals on which JSTOR has already amortized its investment? JSTOR is a non-profit corporation.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/07/2007 01:17:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
